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randys1

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3. The whole gun issues resolves itself if we do two things, enforce the 2nd as written
Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:56 AM
Jul 2015

not as interpreted by a rightwing racist asshole like Scalia, and allow the courts to do what they do best when it comes to product liability.

Hey, I love shooting guns at skeet and so on. It is fun as hell.

I would love to own one of those western type Winchester rifles that you feed the round in from the side, like I saw in cowboy movies when I was a kid a million years ago.

I would love to own it, shoot it, etc. But I guess I wont because I dont want to be a hypocrite about guns, and I guess I wont because the upside to owning and playing with that gun is VASTLY outweighed by the downside given the overall harm done by guns in general.'

Result is I give up the item for the greater good.

EVEN IF I conceded that the 2nd amendment means what the NRA told Scalia to say it means, that an individual right is there, when do I grow up and concede that even though I have a right to this dangerous article used in a hobby, I wont buy it, own it, for the reasons of the greater good?

When do people do that?

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